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No longer was light analogous to the discharge of a blunderbuss, but rather to the pulsating flight of birds.
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Banesh Hoffmann (1959). The strange story of the quantum: an account for the general reader of the growth of the ideas underlying our present atomic knowledge. Courier Dover Publications. p. 7. ISBN 0486205185. 

 

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